A modding group has doubled down on its plans to port GTA: Vice City content into GTA 4’s engine, despite publisher Take-Two Interactive stepping in to apparently try and shut the enterprise down.
The project – known as GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition – ports the missions, side missions, cutscenes and world from Vice City into the GTA 4 engine. It was created by Revolution Team, and initially required players own a legitimate copy of GTA 4 in order to play.
But the group has now switched its plans, after the YouTube channel charting its progress was suddenly taken down – something Revolution Team has blamed Take-Two for. Now, the project has been released and can work on its own – without requiring players buy GTA 4 first – in response to what the group has called Take-Two’s “cruel move”.
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“Friends, [you] probably already know that just two days before the release, Take-Two Interactive deleted our YouTube channel without any warning or attempt to contact us,” reads a statement published by Revolution Team. “A huge amount of effort and time was invested into the channel, including hundreds of hours of streams dedicated to the mod’s development.”